Boring Might Be Beating You: What I Learned About ETFs vs Stocks
Everyone loves the story of picking the one stock that 10x’d. Nobody tells the story of the four picks that went to zero next to it. So I went looking for what the actual data says about stocks vs ETFs, and it changed how I build my portfolio. Here is the plain-English version. The uncomfortable number Over the past 15 years, about 90% of professional active fund managers underperformed the S&P 500 (SPIVA data)....